In June 2016, Multimedia’s investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure exposed a Ford Expedition vehicle that was gifted to President John Mahama by a Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe.

The estimated cost of the vehicle was $60,000 and the revelation provoked widespread public outrage.

The businessman was said to have won two contracts worth over GH¢100 million after the president took possession of the vehicle.

The development prompted several opposition political parties and civil society organisations to accuse President Mahama of receiving a bribe and asked for his head. He (president Mahama), however denied any wrongdoing.

A radio host with the Accra-based Montie FM Salifu Maase and two panelists, Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako-Gunn were found guilty for scandalizing the court and threatening judges and subsequently sentenced to four months in prison.

Barely a month after being in jail, the three, after a serious bombardment of petitions to the president were freed.

This caused a scandal all over Ghana where many felt the president should not have interfered in what was the decision of the highest court in the country.

The threats, the imprisonment of the panelists and their controversial release stirred the country in heated debated for several weeks.

When Mrs. Charlotte Osei announced in a press conference that 13 out of 17 possible presidential candidates had been disqualified from contesting in the December 7 elections, the whole country went upside down with shock.

Many Ghanaians were especially worried that some presidential candidates such as the PPP's Papa Kwesi Ndoum and the NDP's Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings were not going to be in the race.

However, a decision by the supreme court overturned this decision and political parties were given a second chance to make changes and resubmit their forms.

2016 was definitely an eventful year; one laced with some successes and a few scandals. The New Patriotic Party has promised to ease the worries of Ghanaians with better policies.